Unit Code: COM400 Unit Title: Communication Skills and Report Writing Communication Skills is designed on the premise that improving communication involves raising students’ awareness about their own communication ability and building on these to help them cope with their University Read More …
Category: Department of Forestry
F0R501
Unit Code: F0R501 Unit Title: Dendrology The unit introduces the students in forest botany and dendrology on the basic knowledge which covers the following instructional areas: identification of the physiology of plants; describe the growth requirements of plants, and the Read More …
F0R502
Unit Code: FOR502 Unit Title: Forest Survey & Mapping The unit introduces the students in forest survey and mapping on the basic knowledge on surveying forests and mapping which covers the following instructional areas: provide the data for planning and Read More …
FOR401
Unit Code: FOR401 Unit Title: Forest Utilization & Occupational Health and Safety This First part of this unit covers; the environmental problems caused by uncontrolled logging, ways of minimizing or controlling such problems, procedures for tree felling, de-limbing using axes Read More …
FOR402
Unit Code: FOR402 Unit Title: Soils This unit focuses on the understanding of earth’s internal structures; rock formation, principal rock types and compositions, earthquakes, faults and tectonic plate movements. The unit covers different soil classes, the Land Systems of the Read More …
FOR403
Unit Code: FOR403 Unit Title: Forest Ecology This unit concentrates on the development and functions of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit and seed of plants with emphasis on plantation forest species. Part of it emphasizes the physiological processes of photosynthesis, Read More …
FOR404
Unit Code: FOR404 Unit Title: Forest Inventory The first part of the unit covers the basic concepts of Botanical nomenclature; the morphological features of a plant specimen; standardized terminology used in plant classification and naming, the Latin, local or trade Read More …
FOR405
Unit Code: FOR405 Unit Title: Silviculture This unit provides a framework to learn the basic concept of silviculture and its importance in forestry. The instructional areas cover the following; the foundation of silviculture, the tropical rainforest distribution, the plantation and Read More …
FOR406
Unit Code: FOR406 Unit Title: Surveying and Forest Roads The first part of the unit provides students with the basic skills of using and handling survey instruments within the forest industry. The instructional areas cover the following: using of a Read More …
FOR407
Unit Code: FOR407 Unit Title: Agroforestry This unit provides a framework to learn the significant concepts and values of the sustainable systems of agroforestry in the region. The unit covers the following instructional areas: introduction to agroforestry, the role of Read More …